Air cargo pilot Bill and co-pilot Lynn find their latest assignment - transferring the Red Arrow racing car to France - attracts the attention of thieves.
The initial text stories were abridged reprints of Charles Hamilton's stories from The Magnet before a switch to picture strips. Bunter was already running in a cartoon in Knockout when he started appearing in Comet, and the two strips would run parallel until 1958.
Archers Pip Parkin, Tom Hayfork and Hubert the Minstrel try to play their part in Henry V's French campaign, albeit hindered by their cowardly, rotund superior Sir Rollo Bluster.
Lawman Buck Jones keeps the peace in the Wild West.
Based on a fictionalised version of the film star.[2] Later continued in Sun. Initial episodes were reprinted from Amalgamated Press' Buck Jones series until new Bunn-drawn material started on 8 October 1949. Jones also appeared in Cowboy Picture Library.[1]
Buffalo Bill
Published: 20 May to 16 September 1950; 17 October 1953 to 17 October 1959[1]
Artists: Fred Meagher, Geoff Campion, Derek Eyles, Steven Chapman, Patrick Nicolle, Fred Holmes, Jesús Blasco, Colin Merritt, Alejandro Blasco, Francisco Hidalgo, Eugenio Giner, Romeu, Julio Vivas, Adriano Blasco, Edward Drury[1][a]
Buffalo Bill Cody leads the scouts of Custer's 7th Cavalry out of Fort Abraham Lincoln. He soon develops a bond of honour and respect with noble Sioux chief Sitting Bull despite their opposing roles in the Indian Wars.
The initial 1950 run was reprints of a European strip. From the return on 17 October 1953 until 23 January 1954 the story was a reprint of the United Feature Syndicate newspaper strip, with some additional material by Philip Mendoza.[1] From 30 January 1954 British creators produced original material, in self-contained 8-page stories; this high page count for a weekly story led to the employment of a rotating group of artists. This also saw the character take over on the front cover. Alongside his appearances in Comet, Buffalo Bill also featured in issues of Cowboy Picture Library and Thriller Picture Library.[2] In 1966 the strips were modified and reprinted in Lion as "Texas Jack".[3]
The dashing Frenchman Claude Duval daringly leads the Royalist cavalry during the English Civil War. He also protects the Crown from the machinations of the duplicitous French and their Roundhead co-conspirator, Major Midas Mould.
Detective Dick Barton and partner Snowy White investigate flying saucers.
Front cover story. Barton appeared some three years after the end of the BBC Radio programme. The third and final serial, "Dick Barton and the Grey Ghost", was a modified version of a Sexton Blake story from Knockout, drawn by Roland Davies.[1] Barton also appeared in Super Detective Library.[5]
Young bank teller Don Deeds finds himself drawn into an adventure when racketeers target colleague Miss Jones. Later Deeds and female friend Mai-Mai got entangled in a Martian invasion of Earth.
British adventurer Mike Thompson is dragged into a Web of intrigue during a visit to Algiers in French North Africa, as - aided by handmaiden Nina - he must recover the Golden Scarab from Sheikh Ali Pasha.
Searching for his lost parents in the jungle, Dick Seymour soon comes into conflict with the Ivory trader Snape. Seymour is aided by multiracial local girl Bibi.
Mickey Royston and his sister Betty gain revenge on their cruel uncle Silas Marley when the boy discovers a brass bottle containing the wizard Akbar Al Bagrag.
Captain Dick Dashwood and his batman Tom Twitcher lead a detachment of Royal Dragoons, sent to capture archvillain Creepy Crawley from his trap-filled lair at Gravestones Grange.
Creepy Crawley had featured as a villain in "Dick Turpin" in sister comic Sun.[2]
Jack Swift enters the jungle searching for a missing girl called Peta, finding out that she has been made Queen of a lost African tribe. Swift has to get her to safety before she is killed by treacherous high priest Tharka.
Siblings Jack and Jill join their Uncle Bob for a voyage in his new invention the Flying Fish, a technological wonder capable of travelling over land, under sea and through the air.
After being orphaned in The Blitz, Rusty Riley is adopted by kindly American Quentin Miles and taken to his horse ranch in Kentucky, where he makes fast friends with half-sister Patty and dog Flip.
Digby Everard builds a huge mechanical vessel called the Sea Spider and seems to have turned to piracy; however, when his friend Guy Raynor investigates he finds Everard is instead aiming for illegal arms factories.
Young siblings Peter and Ann are whisked away by their Uncle Jolly to visit strange civilisations in his rocket ship - including an island of superannuated pirates, another populated by clockwork robots (built by Swiss inventors Von Tik and Von Tok), and the planet Jupiter.
Originally a text comic before being transformed into the front cover strip, drawn by Parlett, from 28 June 1952.
Splash Page
Published: 6 May to 16 September 1950 (strip), 7 October to 4 November 1950 (text)[1]
Artist/Illustrator: Alex Oxley[1]
Top Daily World reporter Splash Page's investigative work puts him and his assistant Jill Brent in the centre of the story.
After the Mohawk tribe that raised him are slaughtered, white man Strongbow becomes a doctor in the town of TOWN while hunting for the killers. He later faces the likes of Choctaw rebel Black Lynx and evil Huron chief Rattlesnake, gains a doughty ally in Hawkeye the Hunter and meets the likes of General Custer and Davy Crockett.
The story launched on the front cover before moving to the interior.[10]
Raised by sea-eagles on an isolated rock in the North Atlantic, Eagle joins the RAF during World War II. His avian upbringing naturally allows him to swiftly become a fighter ace, and he is soon entrusted with the experimental Whiplash as his personal aircraft.
